"if you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. you have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over" Jerry Lewis
"I don’t believe
in the irreversibility of situations" Deleuze

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[The following is summary and not translation. Please check my interpretation against the original text, which is reproduced at the end.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

La Volonté de puissance

I

Livre II:

Morphologie et évolution de la Volonté de Puissance

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[According to Julius Robert von Mayer,] the size of the chemical phenomenon always exceeds its useful effect. Steam engines convert only 1/20 of their heat energy into effective mechanical work, cannons only 1/10th, and mammals only 1/5th. This is how wasteful nature can be. Very much of the sun’s energy is never used. Our governments are incredibly wasteful as well. And, we expend much effort when controlling our animal instincts so to perform intellectual work instead, yet so little we gain despite the energy we invest. Thus utility is not the reason behind most operations and endeavors. It is not the “norm” in the way things work. But prodigality is not necessarily something bad. In fact, wastefulness might be necessary. When our instincts force themselves upon us violently, they too are wasteful of their energies. Might this violence be necessary as well?